Burning ISOs

This material is work-in-progress ... Do not follow instructions here until this notice is removed. (Last edited by Dubiousjim on 5 Nov 2012.)

See:

• Arch Wiki on CD Burning
• Arch Wiki on DVD Burning Example:

  growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/path/to/dvdimage.iso

• Arch Wiki on Copying Install ISOs to a USB key, though note that mkarchiso generates hybrid ISOs, whereas as far as I know, alpine-iso does not

To do the converse operation, copying a CD to an ISO image, just do:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/path/to/cdimage.iso

To mount an ISO without physically burning it to a CD:

modprobe loop LOOP=`losetup -f` losetup $LOOP /path/to/cdimage.iso mount -t iso9660 -o ro $LOOP /mnt ...

1. when finished

umount /mnt losetup -d $LOOP

or see Arch Wiki on fuseiso.

See also:

• Gentoo page on converting image files